10 Online Typography Tools For Designers
Typography can be difficult at times to work with, getting it wrong can really alter and effect the feel of the design and what you as a designer were trying to put across.
In this piece you will find 10 great online typography tools that will help with your typography dilemmas, and hopefully save you a little time whilst undertaking your project.
Below there are tools to help with the coding site of typography, creating fonts, identifying fonts and the previewing and testing of fonts.
Online bit Font maker for Windows and Mac.
CSSTXT is a CSS Style Generator with text, it allows you to set fonts, sizes, colours and outputs the code for you to copy and paste in your stylesheet.
Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists, outputs the results for your stylesheet.
Typography tool that allows users to experiment with text and get their finished product outputted in CSS.
This allows you to enter custom text and test drive the fonts on your machine, it displays a large number so you can quickly identify the font you need.
Converts PM PX to EM and vice versa, great and useful conversion tool.
This application allows you to view and test fonts from the computer you are using, you can also enter custom text to preview.
Visual font search, you don’t need the name you can just match the fonts characteristics and it will find the font your searching for.
Another font discovery application, also has an iPhone app which is very cool!
Online tool that will create a word cloud from the text you input.





























November 1, 2009
great tools. i like what the font.. thanks..
November 1, 2009
Thanks N-Designs, what the font is great, also the iPhone app is definitely worth a download too!
November 2, 2009
thanks McBonio.. I’ll try it..
November 2, 2009
very useful post, thank you, lots to investigate now… flipping typical is a great name!
November 3, 2009
I agree WDK fantastic name, very British sounding isn’t it? lol
November 3, 2009
you forgot : http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
November 4, 2009
I did indeed, thanks mark!